Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Category: graphic design
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(this is for a made up album featuring the photograph(s) of an electribe/monotribe, a collaboration with the photography department) 1) Thumbnailing: It’s interesting how the teacher commented how we weren’t ready for critiquing these thumbnails because the lack of typography sketches. How developed do thumbnails need to be? Every boss has a different standard, I…
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Today I presented this in class. After reading the first chapter of “Hey Whipple, Squeeze This” I realize that I shouldn’t have approached this menu design in the way that I did. This is my first group of things that I have designed in InDesign. One of the first quotes I came across in the…
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Post Critique: Tom said that my label had too many saturated colors and the font left something to be desired. Set the scene, he said. Tell a story. So, after some edits and the use of a varying size san serif font, I will submit a different version. Update: 4-23 New Version. Simplified and colored…
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In class we learned about grids. About how nothing is as complicated as it seems. It’s just a lot of structured order and then some overlapping parts to make it look cool. She said as we looked over magazine layouts, gazing over huge bold headlines something that her teacher once told her. The sweet acknowledgement…
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Practically a whole quarter of edits later, I am satisfied with how this turned out. Imagine this on fancy letterhead, high-tooth, creamy paper.
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Here’s the full page ad I made for a tee-shirt that was designed by a another team in the class earlier in the quarter. My art director (fellow classmate), I don’t think she liked much of this. I’ll admit that the handwritten text is a little wonky, but I like it. The grey background threw…
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Design:A Creative Approach by Emerson, Sybil. It’s a really great old book (1953). 125 pages of “experiments” and summaries of graphic design elements. Here are the experiments I completed. Experiments exploring: line, line and texture, lots of texture with some repetition, volume, color, pattern and lastly grouping. Some of the exercises are fairly simple and…
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In critique today, I realized my logo was dead. It had no life, no spark of inspiration to carry me through developing all the necessary accessories, the business card and the letterhead. I mean, who uses Times New Roman as a logo font, anyways! As I told Jill and my small critique group, the logo…
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